What about installing F17....& doing the " fedup" procedure?... might that work?.... On Mar 11, 2013 12:32 AM, "Dan Irwin" <rummymob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I'm trying to get F18 onto my new Dell laptop (e6530). Not > surprisingly, it's not working. > > The installer won't let me install. It won't find free space. It won't > shrink partitions. > > I even dropped to a shell, and used fdisk to blow away my windows 7 > partition, and the installer still doesn't work properly! > > I have now tried to manually partition, and the installer tells me > "Error checking storage configuration". > > I have not had issues like this installing Linux since the mid 1990s. > And even then, I was able to complete and install. Today, in 2013, > with all the knowledge and experience I have, I cannot seem to get F18 > onto my laptop. > > In frustration, I went and installed a F18 VM on my old laptop. When > the VM has an empty, unpartitioned disk, the install worked perfectly. > > Why has this been broken so bad? What was so bad about the old > installer? The ability to manually create LVMs and partitions would is > a panacea compared to this mess in F18. Seriously. This is pathetic. > > So, right now, I have a laptop without any OS. Useful! > > Notes: > > Yeah, I should have beta tested. But that was hard considering I only > received my new laptop on Friday. > I'm not blaming anyone for my deletion of my own OS. > Fedora should not outright remove and replace features, and expect to > have such features restorred within the usual 6 month release > schedule. Who the hell signed off on this? > Linux distros need to learn to not cater for novices. If you can't > partition, you shouldn't be running Linux. > > As this has descended into rant material, I am going to choose to stop now. > > Come on Fedora, shape up. You can do better than this. > > Time to find a Fedora 17 ISO somewhere on my net... > > Cheers, > > Dan > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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